Kemal was fondly called "Başöğretmen" (often translated as something like "headmaster") due to his role in championing the use of the [Latin] alphabet to write Turkish and for taking part in raising the education and literacy levels of his people. So, this illustration depicts Teacher Kemal as a professor teaching the alphabet to the Turkish people. Incidentally, you can see in her left hand a bottle of the Turkish hard liquor known as raki; it's said that the cirrhosis of the liver that resulted in his death was due in part to drinking too much of it. Because alcohol consumption is forbidden by Islam, he is seen by some strict adherents as a traitor to the faith.

Illustrated by Tanaka Shoutarou